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Originally Posted by BumblingBuilder
I like using a chairmans submission as a tie breaker much more than the current one: high score.
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I agree with you here Matt. While this may be affected by our unfortunate ranking based off of the said high score tiebreaker (ranked 31st), high score probably shouldn't be taken into account at all. While most teams haven't scored above 150 or 160, the high score usually doesn't have anything to do with the individual robot's performance, especially when they base everything off of the first regional a team attends. For example, this puts teams who attended Duluth in week 1 at an immediate disadvantage to those who attended Minneapolis at week 6.
While one could say that this provides an incentive to the best teams to have a dominant robot right off the bat, this still doesn't translate well to other teams that either cannot afford multiple regionals or must go to a later one. This brings me back to the high score tiebreaker. Long story short, it shouldn't exist. There are plenty of other team-specific factors such as penalties or even to a certain extent OPR. Overall, the high score tiebreaker is probably not the best decision, even if it is the fourth and last one.